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	'<{title}>' => 'The Electronic Frontier Foundation',
	'<{subtitle}>' => 'Written in <span title="Globalization">POLS 1503</span> of <a href="http://www.uopeople.edu/">University of the People</a>, finalised on 2016-09-21',
	'<{copyright year}>' => '2016',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
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<p>
	When most people think about human rights advocacy groups, they usually think about groups that have been around for a long time and are drawing attention to human rights violations that have been going on for centuries.
	However, as technology advances, people find new ways to oppress one another.
	As our lives continue to become increasingly computerized, so has the need to look at human rights violations in a modern context.
	To call our attention to human rights violations made possible only by the digital era, the Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed.
	Their mission is to protect the online rights that we take for granted in the offline world (EFF, n.d.).
	They do this using a combination of hosting petitions (EFF, n.d.), participating in legal cases (EFF, n.d.), building free software tools to help protect your rights (EFF, n.d.), and raising general awareness about digital freedom problems that need to be corrected (EFF, n.d.).
</p>
<p>
	One of the Electronic Frontier Foundation&apos;s current projects is to fight government spying and surveillance (EFF, n.d.).
	This includes explaining to the public how the NSA is able to perform their surveillance (EFF, n.d.), building encryption tools to make surveillance more difficult, helping teach people to protect themselves from surveillance (EFF, n.d.), and even fighting in court battles to get NSA dragnet surveillance ended (EFF, n.d.).
	Much of this surveillance was conducted not only without warrants, but with the voluntary cooperation of our own service providers (EFF, n.d.).
	In other words, we, as customers, are paying our service providers to invade our privacy.
	It&apos;s also been shown that surveillance puts a damper on our freedom of speech (Gullo, 2016), as people are afraid to speak their minds when under constant watch.
	We need to reclaim our right to privacy, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation is both helping spread the word about the problem and fighting for that right themselves.
</p>
<p>
	Fixing the severely-broken patent system is another project that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been working on (EFF, n.d.).
	Any patent system is a hindrance to innovation, but the United States&apos; especially-broken patent system encourages patent trolls (EFF, 2015), among other things.
	In addition to trying to fix the broken system to be less damaging, they also work within the bounds of the current legal framework to undo some of the harm that patents are causing.
	Though legal battles, they have voided certain bad patents and have narrowed the scope of others (EFF, n.d.).
	Both to help people understand how broken the patent system is and to cast shame on companies that are abusing the system in especially toxic ways, the Electronic Frontier Foundation exposes the existence of one patent each month that obviously shouldn&apos;t exist (EFF, n.d.).
	For example, do you know that there&apos;s a patent on online peer review (Harman &amp; Nazer, 2016)? That&apos;s just ridiculous.
	What about the patent on having someone pay someone else&apos;s bill (Nazer, 2015)? Clearly, this isn&apos;t a new invention.
</p>
<p>
	One of the biggest obstacles that the Electronic Frontier Foundation faces is that they&apos;re a donation-funded charity (EFF, n.d.) fighting in court cases against large corporations that have plenty of money to afford expensive lawyers, such as 1-800 Contacts (EFF, n.d.) and Google (EFF, n.d.).
	They&apos;re also fighting legal battles against government organizations, which again, are powerful entities.
	It&apos;s an uphill battle, and their funding is more limited than their opponents.
</p>
<p>
	While the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn&apos;t fighting to end world hunger or overthrow oppressive dictatorships, they&apos;re still fighting for vital human rights.
	They fight for our right to free speech (EFF, n.d.), our right to innovate, and even our right to privacy.
	As we blaze forward in terms technological advances, the Electronic Frontier Foundation helps keep the legal system moving forward to keep up with the digital age.
</p>
<div class="APA_references">
<h2>References:</h2>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (2015, February). eff-defend-innovation.pdf. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/files/2015/02/10/eff-defend-innovation.pdf"><code>https://www.eff.org/files/2015/02/10/eff-defend-innovation.pdf</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). 1-800 Contacts v. WhenU | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/cases/1-800-contacts-v-when"><code>https://www.eff.org/cases/1-800-contacts-v-when</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). ATT_onepager.pdf. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager.pdf"><code>https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager.pdf</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). About EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/about"><code>https://www.eff.org/about</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). All EFF&apos;s Legal Cases | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/cases"><code>https://www.eff.org/cases</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). Defend Innovation. Retrieved from <a href="https://defendinnovation.org/"><code>https://defendinnovation.org/</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). EFF Action Center. Retrieved from <a href="https://act.eff.org/"><code>https://act.eff.org/</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). How the NSA&apos;s Domestic Spying Program Works | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/how-it-works"><code>https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/how-it-works</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). NSA Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying"><code>https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). Patent Busting Project | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/patent-busting"><code>https://www.eff.org/patent-busting</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). Say No to Online Censorship! | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/say-no-to-online-censorship"><code>https://www.eff.org/pages/say-no-to-online-censorship</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). Stupid Patent of the Month | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/stupid-patent-month"><code>https://www.eff.org/issues/stupid-patent-month</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). Surveillance Self-Defense | Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications. Retrieved from <a href="https://ssd.eff.org/"><code>https://ssd.eff.org/</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline"><code>https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). Whitepapers | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/wp"><code>https://www.eff.org/wp</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/volunteer/coding-with-eff"><code>https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/volunteer/coding-with-eff</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Electronic Frontier Foundation. (n.d.). Authors Guild v. Google, Part I: Proposed Class Action Settlement | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-google"><code>https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-google</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Gullo, K. (2016, May 19). Surveillance Chills Speech—As New Studies Show—And Free Association Suffers | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/when-surveillance-chills-speech-new-studies-show-our-rights-free-association"><code>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/when-surveillance-chills-speech-new-studies-show-our-rights-free-association</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Harman, E., &amp; Nazer, D. (2016, August 31). Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/stupid-patent-month-elsevier-patents-online-peer-review"><code>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/stupid-patent-month-elsevier-patents-online-peer-review</code></a>
	</p>
	<p>
		Nazer, D. (2015, November 24). Stupid Patent of the Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking Third-Parties for Money | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/stupid-patent-month-infamous-prison-telco-patents-asking-third-parties-money"><code>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/stupid-patent-month-infamous-prison-telco-patents-asking-third-parties-money</code></a>
	</p>
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